Confident in your team's College Football Playoff chances? Reserve your championship tickets now

AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, will host the first championship game of the College Football Playoff. (Mike Herndon/mherndon@al.com)

Think your team will make the first national championship game of the College Football Playoff era? If you're willing to put $20 on it -- or maybe much more -- you can reserve your tickets now.

Starting Wednesday, fans can go to collegefootballplayoff.com and for $20 reserve a ticket to be purchased in the event that a specific team reaches the championship game in Arlington, Texas, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. If that team does reach the game, the fan would then buy the ticket at its $450 face value, with 1,250 such ticket reservations available per team. If the team doesn't reach the game, the $20 is forfeited.

But there's a catch: The fee can rise depending on public demand. For popular teams with better-than-average chances of making the game, that $20 could turn into hundreds.

According to the WSJ, the model has been used in the past with the BCS and Big Ten championship games. College Football Playoff executive director Bill Hancock told WSJ said he expects "Final Four, Super Bowl-type demand."

"There will be 10,000 individual Alabama users that hit this market when it opens on the first day," Rick Harmon, CEO of Forward Market Media, which operates the TeamTix.com platform on which the model is based, told the WSJ.

All reservations are non-refundable, but fans who ultimately purchase tickets at face value can sell them and keep the profit, minus a 10 percent trading fee.